Wendi Kaminski/NBAE/Getty Images If you paid any attention to the Twitter accounts of Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, James Harden or Russell Westbrook during All-Star Weekend, you noticed a theme. They were always together. Westbrook
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Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images Even without Kevin Durant’s ankle injury, we’ve known since the day of the Kendrick Perkins trade that it’s going to be awhile until we see the Thunder, as currently constructed, at
AP Photo (We’ve all had our thoughts post-trade about what the Thunder needs to do, where they need go and who needs to step up. Here’s one fan’s take on it.) By Cody Thrasher
If you missed the first part, “Introduction to the Collective Bargaining Negotiations,” that discussed the imminence of a lockout, you can catch up here. Since most Oklahoma City Thunder fans were originally New Orleans/Oklahoma
AP Photo UPDATE: Via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, Perkins’ extension is for four years, $34.8 million. That’s $8.75 million per year. So much for that “he doesn’t really want to be here” stuff.
Obviously, Thunder fans weren’t excited about Sunday’s outcome, but there were things to be encouraged about. Even excited about. One being the way James Harden played Kobe Bryant in the fourth quarter. If Harden
Layne Murdoch/Getty Images Oklahoma City’s general manager Sam Presti addressed the media for about 35 minutes Friday afternoon talking about the two transactions the Thunder had yesterday. The quote that really hung with me
Headlines
- VP Biden called Durant to thank him for donation
- KD named All-NBA first team, Westbrook second team
- Perk donates $25,000 to help build shelters in schools
- Report: Mo Cheeks to interview with the Pistons
- Thunder land the 12th pick in the 2013 draft
- Thunder donate $1 million to aid with disaster relief
- Kevin Durant donates $1 million to disaster relief
The crunch time debate and the Thunder
Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images Henry Abbott is maybe the smartest basketball writer out there and he’s always had a different take on what teams should do in late game scenarios. It’s simple he says. Run